Alexfloydia

Taxobox
status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
status_text = #Status


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
subfamilia = Panicoideae
genus = "Alexfloydia"
genus_authority = B.K.Simon
species = "A. repens"
binomial = "Alexfloydia repens"
binomial_authority = B.K.Simon

"Alexfloydia" is a monotypic genus of perennial stoloniferous grasses in the family Poaceae, subfamily Panicoideae. This genus is found only in Coastal Eastern Australia. There is one known species, "Alexfloydia repens". [cite web
title=Alexfloydia
publisher=The Grass Genera of the World
url=http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/alexfloy.htm
accessdate=2008-04-02 ] This genera was named in honour of the species Discoverer Alexander G. Floyd. cite web
title=Alexander G. Floyd (1926 - )
publisher=Australian National Herbarium
url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/floyd-alexander-geoffrey.html
accessdate=2008-04-02 ]

Habitat and distribution

"Alexfloydia repens" is a spreading mat forming grass that occupies the king tide zone on the margins of brackish and tidal waterways. The species forms a groundcover associated with the tree species "Casuarina glauca" and the Endangered Ecological Community Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest. Currently this grass is known only from a few locations in the Coffs Harbour region.

tatus

This species is listed as Endangered on the schedules of the NSW "Threatened Species Act". [cite web
title=Black grass-dart butterfly - endangered species listing
publisher=Department of Environment & Climate Change (NSW)
url=http://www3.environment.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/Black+grass-dart+butterfly+endangered+species+listing
accessdate=2008-04-02 ]

Ecology

"A. repens" is the sole larval food plant for the Endangered Black grass-dart butterfly "Ocybadistes knightorum" (Lambkin & Donaldson, 1994). [cite web
title=Alexfloydia repens (a grass) - endangered species listing
publisher=Department of Environment & Climate Change (NSW)
url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/determinations/AlexfloydiaRepensAGrassEndSpListing.htm
accessdate=2008-04-02 ]

References

ources

*Simon, B.K. 1992. Studies in Australian grasses 6. Alexfloydia, Cliffordiochloa and Dallwatsonia, three new panicoid grass genera from Eastern Australia. Austrobaileya 3, 669-681.)